Once upon a time, regardless of a game's difficulty, we played it and, at times, actually relaxed so well during play that we fell asleep to it, rather than spending our months lunging at opportunities to tell all of our 'friends' and the entire world "how hardcore we were", because it was enough to have the games in our possession, and play them leisurely.

The only necessary argument for why the past was better:

We actually slept.

We also had "fun" It's this weird phenomenon born from not trying to prove shit no one cares about..